The Weakest Link

different elements that are affecting the overall performance and commitment of the Varsity team. The Varsity crew has a large pressure to be the best in the program, because that is what they have been selected for; on the other hand, the Junior Varsity crew has “nothing to lose”. This affects both teams’ motivation, because the J.V team is intrinsically motivated through enjoyment of the sport. However, the Varsity team is extrinsically motivated, because it craves the praise associated with being the superior team. Lacking instrumentality and a leader, the Varsity team loses its motivation to defeat the J.V crew in competitions. To make matters worse the Varsity crew starts experiencing strains between its members. Trying to find the weakest link, the Varsity team engages in counterproductive behavior by blaming one another for the poor performance of the team. Due to the fact that most members of the like to focus on their individual skills, the team is not going to work the best way possible, especially in a sport that requires synchronization like rowing. Further, counterproductive behavior will lead to a low trust propensity when a high trust propensity is essential for rowing. Being on the Varsity team puts a lot of pressure on the members, and this pressure could lead to positive or negative outcomes. Positive outcomes can increase the motivation of the members, and induce them to perform in a better, more effective way. However, a negative outcome can also create…

get to our camping site, and began to prepare for the night. Day two was full of training. The rats did not want to work with the nULLs, but too bad because they had to. I quickly grasp what was being taught, and could perform well in the leadership scenarios. I began to feel good about myself. The rats began to act less uptight, and started to work as a team. Until day three of training. On day three of training we had to march back to VMI campus. We were all rushed back to the site. I was…

Broomfield demonstrated that he is not very keen on the word “power”. He does not believe that power is something that is necessary when working with others because, as he said about fairness, everyone is equal with one another and work together as one. Broomfield referred to the popular phrase that the group is only as strong as their weakest link when talking about power and influence. However, he added that he is not ambitious about the weakest link because that reveals that the top, or the…

compete for jobs because those coming back from the military might have more experience in a specific field of work. As well for those with degrees in a specific area of expertise. This competition could help create intelligent and hard working people. It would help with employees so they could do their best to be able to keep and get a job. This competition could help motivate the U.S citizens do better in school or to go back to school to get a degree in a better field of work. People would…

shift everyone down two points. Likewise, if the course naturally ends in an average of 3.0, the professor would shift everyone up several points. This method of grading is used to normalize a class’s final grades and ensure a sense of equity among differing quarters that protects against outside forces that make a course either too difficult or too easy. Many Foster classes also use the curving method to inspire competition between students that pushes them to perform better. This method is…

plant and his goal. Alex was forced to work through a scientific equation to find the bottlenecks in the production facility, though more work was required to fix the issues. Only once the constraints were identified and systems were implemented to control the bottlenecks, Alex and his team found that they needed to continuously check the system to prevent new bottlenecks from occurring or going unnoticed. The Goal provided real-life concepts that can be applied to many personal and…

3.0 Results and Discussion Figure 1 shows the infrared spectrum for both crosslinked and non-crosslinked films. Both carrageenan and vanillin contain similar functional groups such as CH4, C=O, C-O-C, C-OH. There is no significant difference in the spectrum that can be detected for crosslinked and non-crosslinked film samples. The spectrum can be divided into upper and lower spectrum. In the upper spectrum for the region of 2000 – 3600 cm-1, O-H stretching (3100 – 3600 cm-1) and C-H stretching…

In the article Superman to the Rescue: Simulating Physical Invulnerability Attenuates Exclusion-Related Interpersonal Biases (Ackerman, Bargh, & Huan, 2013) Julie Huan, Joshua Ackerman, and John Bargh set up a number of studies including a pre-test, study one, study two, and study three to demonstrate the relation between physical invulnerability simulation and positive or negative reactions to being excluded in social situations. They also consider how the reactions of exclusion can change when…

Tarlock 2007). For nearly a century, clashes between fishers, tribes, environmentalists, and farmers have peaked and ebbed during water shortages and fortuitous wet years. The Euro-American colonial legacy and the settlement and occupation of native territories has resulted in the dispossession of indigenous lands and waters, as well as the strict regulation of indigenous access to waters formerly under their jurisdiction by American government forces (Most 2006). . The Klamath Hydroelectric…

d = a + b - c Receiver (BS) Thermal noise density in dBm/Hz -174 Base station receive noise figure F in dB 3 Receiver noise power in dBm -105.15 e Interference margin in dB 4.5 f Total effective noise and interference in dBm ? g = e + f Processing gain in dB 25.8 h Target Eb/No in dB 8 i Receiver sensitivity in dBm ? j = i - h + g Base station antenna gain in dBi 12 k Base station losses in dB 2 l Shadowing margin in dB 8 m Fast fading margin in dB 2 n Soft/softer handover gain in dB 4 o Total…